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Every great national literature is a fruit of much foreign sustenance and refreshment, however capable the national spirit may prove of mastering the foreign element.

— Sidney Lee The French Renaissance in England (1910)

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I believe that the luxuriance of Shakespeare's dramatic instinct largely dominates that outburst of lyric melody which gives the Sonnets their life.

Discriminating brevity is a law of the right biographic method.

He had a splendid appetite at all times, and never toyed with his food

Reading is a wrestling with ideas greater than any we can create for ourselves. It has been said, a little extravagantly, that reading can get the better of most physical sufferings, all indeed save the pangs of hunger.

The Place of English Literature in the Modern University (1913)

Shakespeare avows, although in phraseology that is often cryptic, the experiences of his own heart

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